CATIA for Design
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T H E C H A L L E N G E BOOSTING INNOVATION FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE When it comes to design, we are all increasingly discriminating. As a direct consequence, products combining the best performance and usability through design are clearly preferred. As designers, our daily challenge is to imagine and create the products we are dreaming about, anticipating market trends and expectations we have as consumers. The solution you are relying on has to be almost like a part of yourself, an extended arm for you to freely express your creativity, as well as provide you with best-in-class performance....

T H E E X P E R I E N C E Imagine & Shape your next product generation with a unique and intuitive virtual clay modeling approach. Start your 3D ideation either from scratch or from your 2D sketches: grab a basic shape, squeeze it, stretch it, combine it with other shapes, move it, test it, and iterate. With a reduced set of commands, discover a new “extended arm” to express your ideas in “full HD” 3D, sharpening your communication for more impact

Just be the imagineers of a better world. Not only can you manipulate shapes with unrivalled freedom, but also take full advantage of a true creativity accelerator to quickly explore and test many more ideas in the early conceptual phase. Make changes at any time throughout the design process, discover the opportunities of each option, and build up product range and relevant brand portfolio. Express your creativity and leverage your added value! From conceptual design to engineering, CATIA streamlines product design while enabling creators to build, leverage, and share their design intent....

3D becomes the common language throughout your value chain. CATIA leverages 3D as a universal and natural language to enable all disciplines such as marketing, design, engineering, manufacturing, or purchasing to share your product creation process. Decision making is immediately accelerated, creating more room for innovation. The single platform for multi-disciplinary collaboration puts everyone in touch in a constant, dynamic information space. Your products are imagined, built, and shared “real time” in a concurrent development stream. Issues are detected earlier, and solved before they...

Expérience your product in Lifelike conditions before it reaches How about maximizing the chance for your créations and concepts to corne to Life? Early simulations can be a part of the answer. Kinematics, stress, thermal, or vibration analysis Lead you to unexpLored innovative options, with valuable time and energy savings. Involve your customers, validate concepts, and make better décisions, earlier. Create lifelike conditions to submit concepts and ideaswith renderings, animations, and behaviors. Dynamic reflections, shadows, and texture mapping become your (high] standard working...

I N T U I T I V E A C C E S S T O T H E P O W E R O F C AT I A Understanding your needs and concerns as creative people has been the key driver to build-up the solution that fits your expectations. Design is not a linear process and calls for flexible tools that behave close to the way you are working, as designers. A dedicated solution built by designers, for designers, this is what CATIA For Design is all about. Reaching the tipping point, CATIA For Design unites emotional and rational content. It brings together the best of creativity (art) and engineering (science) in the most...

DASSAULT SYSTEMES DESIGN STUDIO: Design has become a stratégie asset for most of the advanced industry Leaders. As a major contributor to this momentum, Dassault Systèmes now intégrâtes design-oriented fundamentals to Leverage the value proposai for its current and future design solutions portfolios. Sharing her 20+ years of expérience in leading positions with such industry leaders as Renault and General Motors Advanced Design, Anne Asensio joined DS as Vice Président, Design Expérience, to structure and grow our design efforts, leading up to the création of DS Design Thinking beyond...

FUTURE DESIGNERS TALK ABOUT CATIA FOR DESIGN A number of pilot projects are taking place in well-known design schools. After a 2-day training, students in their 4th year are able to define real concepts “on the fly”. Some of them immediately decide to use CATIA For Design for their 5th year graduation project. The feeling of keeping the situation “under control” provides the Designer with the self-confidence he or she often needs to undertake developing the coolest and craziest concepts.

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